David & Carrie Kloss Technique Collection

The Art of American Style Dancing

There is really no one technique or element that creates a high standard of dancing, but
many techniques combined. The goals in these videos are to show what they feel to be
fundamentally important and often overlooked. This is understanding the many different
dance positions the American Style dancer has available to them, and the ability to flow
from one position to another smoothly and effortlessly. Also, the relationship between two
partners and their responsibilities for creating very elegant and seamless connections
from open to closed dance positions. In demonstrating the techniques, they have created
very nice patterns in each video.

In this video on American Ballroom Styling the Klosses show the many different elements
that all go into developing the character and style of a dance. They have broken these
elemento into four categories:1)Arm Styling and how to use the arms smoothly, 2)Shade and
Sway and how these two elements can create beautiful movements, 3)Lines, how to keep them
moving so they never appear to stop, 4)Timing,how to use different speeds to create
different moods from moving figures to picture steps

1)Intro and Dance positions, 2)Shadow Left Whisk,Swivel Same Foot Lunge, Telespin To
Back Check, 3)Going Through Check,Weave From Promenade,Spiral Turn,Left Side Run,
4)Chase,Shadow Weave,Fallaway Hairpin, 5)Lady's Spin To Open Check,Inverted Swivel to
Lady's Freespin, 6)Fallaway Reverse and Slip to a Drag Hesitation,Shadow Check to a Shadow
Hover and Weave